Sometimes PPR just doesn’t do it for you. Fantasy leagues just need a little something more to make it interesting, but there are ways to make them more fun. Let’s jump into ways to spice up your fantasy football leagues.
How to Spice Up Your Fantasy Football Leagues
Add a Last Place Punishment
Nothing is better than keeping the players in last vying to not stink. Add last-place punishment. Some of the funniest ones include the Waffle House challenge, making last place wear a shirt that says they stink at fantasy football, or whatever your imagination can come up with.
This article has some of the best last place punishments, like a Buffalo Wild Wings adventure, a standup comedy set, and some paintball punishment. For more ideas, check out the random punishment generator and make your friends do some silly things for picking Jerry Jeudy way too early.
Change the League Settings
This podcast has 40 minutes of crazy league settings to sift through, so that’s where fantasy managers or commissioners should start. After that, point per carry is a blast to add. For those saying that running backs don’t matter, this would bring them back to fun. Other options include adding an extra tight end, which makes tight ends cool again. Long gone are the days of Travis Kelce and everyone else. Instead, managers have to sweat over Chigoziem Okonkwo versus Tucker Kraft on a Monday night game to see who wins the week.
Even making small changes, like incremental PPR that is based on the distance of the throw is huge. Instead of Rondale Moore getting 1.2 fantasy points for a screen pass, you can make it .1 for receptions behind the line of scrimmage. It’s not the biggest change in the world, but it will cause managers to care just a little more, and that’s huge to the fantasy football junkies.
Spice up your fantasy football leagues by messing with the settings, whether it’s adding an extra flex or abolishing kickers. (Yes, you should abolish kickers).
Add a Rotating Trophy
TrophySmack has some of the best memorabilia in the industry, but even a small handcrafted trophy can mean the world to a family league. Our family league has a small, handcrafted trophy that the winner signs every year. It makes the league more interesting, and keeps people involved year round.
It doesn’t even have to be a trophy. The “trophy” can be a belt, ring, first dibs on dinner choices, anything that spices up the fantasy football league should be used.
Try Out Best Ball
It’s hard to find 12 people who want to play fantasy football. Not everyone has 120 friends to play in ten leagues with. That’s why sites like Underdog and FanDuel are great places to draft more, and play more. More fantasy leagues equals more fun (that was Newton’s fourth law if history had written it down) and drafting all summer long is a good way to stay sharp to current ADPs.
Last Word on Spicing Up Fantasy Football Leagues
There are all sorts of way to have fun with fantasy leagues. Last place punishments punish your losers. League settings let the real thinkers sharpen their iron, while rotating trophies add a tangible way to prove you’re smarter than your friends. Remember, when you win you’re smart, when you lose it was just bad luck.
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